# Ashby vs Recruitee (slim)

> Ashby scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Recruitee's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Recruitee leads on payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Ashby scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Recruitee's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Recruitee leads on payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Ashby: C 61.3, rank #369 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ashby.min.md
- Recruitee: D 52.9, rank #557 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recruitee.min.md
- Ashby, good for Companies already on Ashby that want an agent to read pipelines, add candidates, move applications between stages, schedule interviews and pull reports with a narrowly scoped key. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 82 against 44; Agent ergonomics, 59 against 43; Security & auth, 63 against 53. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Recruitee, good for Companies already on Tellent Recruitee that want an agent to add candidates, create jobs, move and disqualify applications, schedule interviews and send offer letters. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 20 against 10. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Ashby | Recruitee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 79 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 44 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 43 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ashby | Recruitee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ashby, Inc. | Tellent (Recruitee B.V.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ashbyhq.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | Token |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Ashby Customer Terms of Service | Proprietary service under the Tellent Terms & Conditions |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-29 | 2026-06-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |